Diogo
Figueiredo

15+ years building and scaling infrastructure products serving millions of users. Deep expertise in AWS. Experienced leading cross-functional teams up to 15 engineers across infrastructure, mobile, and product.

AWS Kubernetes Terraform Kubernetes Datadog SRE
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Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
15+
Years of Experience
4M+
Users Served
99.95%
Uptime Delivered

About

Staff SRE with 13+ years building and scaling infrastructure for products serving millions of users. I specialize in platform transformations: taking systems from frequent outages to 99.95% uptime, reducing cloud costs, and building observability that enables teams to move faster with confidence.

Deep expertise in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Nomad, and Datadog. Currently at Dashlane leading observability, SLO frameworks, and disaster recovery. Previously led infrastructure and product at Telpark (4M+ users, 30+ services, 45 engineers) and Etleap.

Experience

Staff SRE
Dashlane
Jan 2025 – Present

Leading SRE and cloud architecture for a password manager / B2B security product serving millions of users globally.

  • Leading company observability initiative, designing unified monitoring architecture and establishing consistent instrumentation
  • Reducing AWS infrastructure costs through architecture audit and rightsizing initiatives
  • Driving automated dependency/update workflows to reduce security risk surface in partnership with Security team
  • Establishing SLO framework across platform services, defining reliability targets and error budgets
  • Establishing disaster recovery strategy for critical components reducing RTO with automated failover
Terraform AWS
SRE & Product Manager
Premium Minds
Apr 2012 – Dec 2024

Owned the infrastructure while leading product for Spain/Portugal's #1 parking app (4M+ users), driving practices across 7 teams and 40+ engineers.

  • Eliminated recurring outages caused by undetected database issues and deployment failures, building observability and release processes that delivered 99.95% uptime
  • Architected migration from static EC2 instances to Nomad-orchestrated cluster using IaC Terraform, enabling dynamic scaling and zero-downtime deployments across 30+ services
  • Unified CI/CD pipelines across 30+ microservices through standardised Jenkins workflows
  • Replaced basic CloudWatch monitoring with comprehensive Datadog stack (metrics, APM, alerting)

Product Manager: Led the development of the #1 car parking app in Spain and Portugal, serving over 4 million users with seamless parking solutions.

Kubernetes Problem Solving Terraform AWS Datadog Nomad
SRE
Etleap
Feb 2021 – May 2024

Responsible for infrastructure reliability and developer experience at a B2B data pipeline company responsible for multiple TBs of data.

  • Led infrastructure for B2B data pipeline platform: AWS architecture, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and developer tooling
  • Reduced CI pipeline duration by 50% (70 → 35 min) and eliminated flaky test noise through test parallelisation and Docker optimisations
  • Unified fragmented monitoring tools into single Datadog platform with standardised dashboards
  • Established Terraform standards that scaled infrastructure ownership from sole SRE to full engineering team
DevOps Problem Solving Terraform AWS Datadog
CTO
Limetree
Jun 2012 – Oct 2014

Designed architecture and led development of mobile platform for family memory sharing. Built backend, frontend, and mobile apps; managed AWS infrastructure and deployment automation.

Founder, CEO
MyOut
Jan 2011 – May 2014

Built cultural events aggregator for Portugal. Developed full stack including ElasticSearch-powered search, Redis caching, and web crawlers.

Skills & Expertise

Core Expertise
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Terraform Kubernetes Nomad Datadog Docker Jenkins CI/CD Observability SLO / Error Budgets Disaster Recovery Site Reliability Engineering Product Development DevOps Management Cloud Architecture ElasticSearch Redis

Education

Instituto Superior Técnico
Master, Information Systems and Computer Engineering
2010 – 2012
Utrecht University
Master, Computer Science — Erasmus
2011

Volunteering

Candeia
Children — Volunteer
Aug 2014 – Present